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Art and Jan Wulf, photographed in 2002, on the occasion of their purchase of a home in the then-under-construction Shermer Place in Northbrook.

Police: Son issued manifesto before killing Northbrook parents in Las Vegas

May 14, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

The son of a Northbrook couple sent a manifesto hundreds of pages long to police before killing his parents, and then shooting himself at their Las Vegas home, officials said...

Civic Foundation grant helps bring back CPR classes

May 14, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

A Northbrook Civic Foundation grant will help bring back free cardio-pulmonary resuscitation classes for Northbrook residents, according to Fire Chief Jose Torres. "We've been receiving a lot of requests, but...

Shout Out: Chiara Fera

May 14, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Chiara Fera, a fine artist, she said she was offered a job as operations manager of Edwards Florist after the owners saw her work at a festival. She's also a...

The Northbrook Park District plans to build two bocce courts in the grassy area south of the Indian Ridge Park playground.

Northbrook to build its first public bocce courts

May 14, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Bocce, the Italian lawn bowling game, has been played in Northbrook for decades, despite the absence of permanent public courts. That will change this fall, when the Northbrook Park District...

Northbrook Historical Society President Judy Hughes, left, and Northbrook Public Library multimedia manager Steve Gianni sit on Northbrook's new John Hughes bench, with a view of the water tower featured in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and, in the foreground, the Tower Rink/soccer field.

As Ferris Bueller turns 30, Northbrook invites the world to sit and look at his favorite water tower

May 14, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

About a year before anybody had heard of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Steve Gianni was one of those who wondered, day after day, why the words "Save Ferris" had suddenly...

Shout Out: Melly Schwartz

May 14, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

Melly Schwartz owns Turn the Tables, a 5-year-old consignment furniture store at 1955 Cherry Lane in Northbrook, with her husband, Mitch. They split the sales with consignors 50-50. A degreed...

Workers prepare detour signs at Dundee and Waukegan roads on May 10. The signs will warn drivers away from Dundee Road, between Waukegan and Pfingsten roads, during railroad crossing reconstruction.

Traffic hassles expected on Dundee Road during May repairs

May 14, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

Northbrook officials are asking drivers to stay off Dundee Road in central Northbrook from May 18 through May 26, when the crossing of the Metra railroad tracks will be under...

Erin Gregory of AMC demonstrated in December 2015 one of the new reclining seats at the AMC Theaters at Block 37 in Chicago, similar to what's now planned for Northbrook Court's AMC theater.

Northbrook Court theaters proposerecliners and alcoholic beverages

May 14, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

A plan to convert Northbrook Court's 14-screen movie complex into an all-recliner venue with a bar was greeted positively May 10 by the Northbrook Village Board, which could vote to...

Shout Out: Kelly Durov

May 14, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

Kelly Durov, Northbrook Public Library youth services director, will kick off the children's summer reading program on June 1. "If kids continue to read in the summer, they stay at...

The lobby of the Blackstone Hotel, now a Renaissance hotel, showing the profusion of ornament architect Benjamin Marshall was know for.

Northbrook couple funds book, throws party, for little-known architect

June 10, 2018 at 4:27 p.m.

If you've heard of architect Benjamin H. Marshall, you may owe that familiarity to Jane and Didier Lepauw of Northbrook. They say they've been trying to tell you about him...

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